Quotes with powers

  • What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
  • The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
  • Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
  • Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
  • It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
  • The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
  • No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
  • Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
  • Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
  • A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Frederick Douglass Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Napoleon Hill When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Horace You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Henry Miller Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Milton And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Arthur Henderson As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • William Blake As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • John F. Kennedy As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Barack Obama But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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